Monday, 17 November 2014

Knitting & Tatting

We're getting into cold and miserable weather season… lots of rain too! This means it must be time for a bit of knitting. I went back to the knitting group on Saturday morning - I had not been since before the summer holidays. I had a lovely time knitting and chatting with the ladies.

I still have my Fair Isle Cardigan on the needles but as the group is held in a knitting shop, it's only fair I be knitting from wool I bought from the shop so I decided to start another project for knitting on Saturdays. I had a Debbie Bliss pattern I'd been planning to make for a while so I got started on that once I spotted the perfect colour of wool for me… a gorgeous teal in pure wool.

The stitch is double-moss which give a really nice textured fabric but it's time-consuming! It's like knitting a whole cardigan in ribbing. I hope I don't regret my choice...

AND… I have only 7 repeats left to complete the butterfly doily! Really nearly there.

12 comments:

Both, the doily & the knitting look very appealing :-)This last round in the doily seems quite intriguing!I've used the double moss stitch for the border & joins of an afghan - loved the texture, and definitely less boring than a plain rib .

How lovely to go and sit and knit with follow knitters, Our local wool shop has just moved to larger premises and added a little coffee shop area and another area for learning, I am going to start tatting lessons for them soon.Your knitting looks lovely I am sure when you finish it you won't regret it, the doily is looking lovely can't wait to see it finished.Margaret

Yes, I knitted a Rowan sweater in that stitch with a lovely fine alpaca charcoal tweed. Then when it was done I became very aware of my sensitivity not only to wool, but also to alpaca! So many hours.... : ))

Bonjour Frivole,Have you tried what is often called "Portuguese" knitting these days? I've modified it so that I purl "Portuguese" and "knit" continental, but with the yarn still going through the pin or round my neck, of course. I've termed it "flick and pick" as I flick with my thumb to purl and pick to knit. To change from one to the other I just duck my left-needle tip under the working yarn to knit or let the natural tension on the yarn bring it through to the near side for purl. It speeds up patterns that are K-P combinations so much for me - which makes it really handy for double knitting too. K-P combinations for me now are no more tedious than plain knitting, and I find it more relaxing for my shoulders too. For multiple colours I put a pin on each shoulder and find that as an added bonus my balls don't get into nasty tangled mangled messes. If you try it sometime (I recommend on a swatch to start with, my tension is different when I knit this way) I'd love to hear what you think of it.All the best,Megan